Well, guess what? Police also commit crime. The same justification applies. If Flock is justified, this is justified.
In fantasy land maybe, in reality power determines justification.
Millions against, what, a couple hundred thousands?
It's just that nobody wants to be the cannon fodder at the front that gets mowed down before the millions trample the thousands.. :')
It is why everyone goes so hardline on socialist ideals and labor unions. Organization is required for people to accuratly project their power. And any organization of common people puts the powerful people at risk of being usurped from their position.
Power determines rationalization. Justification is a moral question.
In fantasy land maybe, reality is more complex than can be summed up in a barroom cliché.
But yeah moderation would be a nightmare still - I could see a ton of ways to abuse this. Criminals will figure it out as a source to track individuals, placing themselves in their known travel path, setup satellite spots to alert, that way for example if they're casing the joint they could have alerts when then individual is coming back.
Great, now ppl are going to make this app and use it for bad, see what you did.
All I had to do was log in on Autora and make a little friends group for everyone to join, and they handle the rest. It doesn't cost us anything! It's so nice of them to provide this service for everyday people like us.
I also signed up for some other groups I found on Facebook and those are pretty neat, too! I just do my regular driving like I always have, and every week they each drop a few dollars into my PayPal account. It feels great to make the world a little safer, and I haven't had to worry about paying for Disney+ for months now!
#blessed #couponing #sidegigs
Yeah well, if you're not doing anything wrong you've nothing to worry about, eh?
Very brave man, good for you.
It's not complicated or some gotcha. I'm fine with police cameras that whose access is strictly controlled, monitored and used to fight crime, rather than some creep taking pictures of me and doing God knows what with it.
Police do have privileges that ordinary citizens do not. That’s understood, and part of the reason they should be held to a higher standard of conduct than ordinary citizens.
Using their emergency lights and ignoring traffic rules in order to get to a real emergency is one of those privileges.
Widespread, automated mass surveillance is not one of those privileges.
So it appears we agree.